Fabric OS Administrator's Guide v7.0.0 (53-1002148-02, June 2011)

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Licensing overview
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Table 65 lists the optionally licensed features that are available in Fabric OS 7.0.0:
TABLE 65 Available Brocade Licenses
License Description
10 Gigabit FCIP/Fibre Channel License
(10G license)
• Allows 10 Gbps operation of FC ports on the Brocade 6510
switch or the FC ports of FC16-32 or FC16-48 port blades
installed on a Brocade DCX 8510 enterprise-class platform.
• Enables the two 10GbE ports on the FX8-24 extension blade
when installed on the Brocade DCX,DCX-4S, DCX 8510-4, or
Brocade DCX 8510-8 enterprise-class platform.
• Allows selection of the following operational modes on the
FX8-24 blade:
• 10 1GbE ports and 1 10GbE port, or
• 2 10GbE ports
• License is slot based when applied to a Brocade enterprise-class
platform. It is chassis based when applied to a Brocade 6510
switch.
7800 Upgrade License
• Enables full hardware capabilities on the Brocade 7800 base
switch, increasing the number of Fibre Channel ports from four
to sixteen and the number of GbE ports from two to six.
• Supports up to eight FCIP tunnels instead of two.
• Supports advanced capabilities like tape read/write pipelining.
NOTE: The Brocade 7800 switch must have the Upgrade License to
add FICON Management Server (CUP) or Advanced
Accelerator for FICON.
Adaptive Networking with QoS
• Enables QoS SID/DID Prioritization and Ingress Rate Limiting
features. These features ensure high priority connections by
obtaining the bandwidth necessary for optimum performance,
even in congested environments.
• Available on all 8 Gbps platforms.
Advanced Extension License
• Enables 2 advanced extension features: FCIP Trunking and
Adaptive Rate Limiting.
• FCIP Trunking feature allows all of the following:
• Multiple (up to 4) IP source and destination address pairs
(defined as FCIP Circuits) using multiple (up to 4) 1 GbE or
10 GbE interfaces to provide a high bandwidth FCIP tunnel
and failover resiliency.
• Support for up to 4 of the following QoS classes: Class-F,
high, medium and low priority, each as a TCP connection.
• Adaptive Rate Limiting feature provides a minimum bandwidth
guarantee for each tunnel with full usage of available network
bandwidth without any negative impact to throughput
performance under high traffic load.
• Available on the Brocade 7800 switch, and the Brocade DCX and
DCX-4S and the Brocade DCX 8510 family for the FX8-24 on an
individual slot basis.
Advanced FICON Acceleration
• Allows use of specialized data management techniques and
automated intelligence to accelerate FICON tape read and write
and IBM Global Mirror data replication operations over distance,
while maintaining the integrity of command and
acknowledgement sequences.
• Available on the Brocade 7800 switch, and the Brocade DCX and
DCX-4S and the Brocade DCX 8510 family for the FX8-24 on an
individual slot basis.